Something that many of my life-coaching clients have difficulty getting their head round is the area of personal responsibility. There are those people (fewer than you might expect in my experience, although I guess they would never hire a life coach so that may be a part of it) that see all their problems as […]

Further to my post the other day about curiosity I wanted to take this a step further. In 2002 I was in London with my dad when he had a stroke. The ambulance came to collect him and I had the crazy job of following it across London in rush hour whilst it had its […]

I know I often talk of the more esoteric side of life coaching and this is about as left field as it gets because I have no idea how the process I am going to describe works, but it does. If you have a friend or family member with a headache ask them to sit […]

Can you remember when you were a little kid how curious you were about the world? You would ask questions like why is the sea blue, where does the sun go at night, where did I come from and why is that doggy climbing on top of that other doggy? At that age we learn […]

Ok, so I know I am now doing a complete volte-face and contradicting what I said yesterday about controlling your thoughts but I’m allowed to do that because it’s my Blog. Whereas I do believe you need to be aware of what you are thinking especially all that nasty insidious stuff that can make you […]

A number of years ago I was playing golf with a friend back in the UK and as was often the case, talk turned to work. He worked for a company that I had previously worked for and had progressed up the corporate ladder faster than a frog leaving a blender manufacturers conference. I was […]

I hardly ever get questioned about the applications of NLP and almost never hear people that aren’t trained in it talking about it or offering opinions. As a field of science it is not very well known and therefore there are few people with misapprehensions of what it does and does not involve and what […]

I was reading a Blog the other day about some guy that had been trying to break his personal best for running a 10k race. It was one of those I stumbled on when looking for something else and it was unremarkable except for one line that stood off the page for me and made […]